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... common Dictionary must suit both sides of the Atlantic . " " The good average business - like character of Webster's Dictionary , e both in style and matter , made it as distinctly suited as Johnson's was distinctly unsuited to be ...
... common Dictionary must suit both sides of the Atlantic . " " The good average business - like character of Webster's Dictionary , e both in style and matter , made it as distinctly suited as Johnson's was distinctly unsuited to be ...
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... common sort had the common grave interment . So Stark- atterus , that old hero , was burnt , and Ringo royally burnt the body of Harold the king slain by him . What time this custom generally expired in that nation , we discern no ...
... common sort had the common grave interment . So Stark- atterus , that old hero , was burnt , and Ringo royally burnt the body of Harold the king slain by him . What time this custom generally expired in that nation , we discern no ...
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... common form with * In Oxfordshire , Camden . + In Cheshire , Twinus de rebus Albionicis . In Norfolk , Hollingshead . § Matt . xxiii . Euripides . necks was a proper figure , making our last bed СНАР . III . ] 21 URN BURIAL .
... common form with * In Oxfordshire , Camden . + In Cheshire , Twinus de rebus Albionicis . In Norfolk , Hollingshead . § Matt . xxiii . Euripides . necks was a proper figure , making our last bed СНАР . III . ] 21 URN BURIAL .
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... common ligament is dissolved , the attenuable parts ascend , the rest subside in coal , calx , or ashes . 5 To burn the bones of the king of Edom for lime , § seems no irrational ferity ; but to drink of the ashes of dead rela- tions ...
... common ligament is dissolved , the attenuable parts ascend , the rest subside in coal , calx , or ashes . 5 To burn the bones of the king of Edom for lime , § seems no irrational ferity ; but to drink of the ashes of dead rela- tions ...
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... Common tombs preserve not beyond powder : a firmer consistence and compage of parts might be expected from arefaction , deep burial , or charcoal . The greatest antiquities of mortal bodies may remain in putrefied bones , whereof ...
... Common tombs preserve not beyond powder : a firmer consistence and compage of parts might be expected from arefaction , deep burial , or charcoal . The greatest antiquities of mortal bodies may remain in putrefied bones , whereof ...
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Page 178 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 172 - Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen ; and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine,) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Page 152 - I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together...
Page 549 - SHARPE (S.) The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs, AD 640.
Page 45 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Page 43 - Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle J must conclude and shut up all There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 45 - ... daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
Page 48 - Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of pre-ordination, and night of their fore-beings. And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the Spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world...
Page 42 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism ; not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial...
Page 549 - In 2 vols. • - ; or, with the plates coloured, 7*. 6d. per vol. Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain ; or, Calendar of Victory. Being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land, on every day in the year, from the time of William the Conqueror to the Battle of Inkermann.